17.3173, Qs: Language Reversion in Healthy Elderly Bilinguals

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-3173. Mon Oct 30 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.3173, Qs: Language Reversion in Healthy Elderly Bilinguals

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Date: 28-Oct-2006
From: Monika S. Schmid < ms.schmid at let.vu.nl >
Subject: Language Reversion in Healthy Elderly Bilinguals 

	
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:53:51
From: Monika S. Schmid < ms.schmid at let.vu.nl >
Subject: Language Reversion in Healthy Elderly Bilinguals 
 


Dear colleagues,

I am trying to find references to cases where elderly migrants, after
functioning well in a second language environment for decades, 'revert' to
their first language and appear to develop problems in the second.
The existence of this phenomenon seems to be widely acepted. However,
virtually all references to it that I can find are of the type ''We all are
familiar with...'', ''Research has shown that...'' etc., and the only
actual studies I could find were the ones performed in the 1980s by Kees de
Bot, Michael Clyne and Loraine Obler. 

Is anybody familiar with further (and more recent) actual research on this?
If you could let me know, I'd be most grateful. I shall, of course, publish
a summary of what I receive.

Thank you,

Monika S. Schmid 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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